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Proceedings of the 1st-30th Annual Meeting of the North Central Associaiton of Colleges and Secondary Schools Volume 8, PT. 1903

Proceedings of the 1st-30th Annual Meeting of the North Central Associaiton of Colleges and Secondary Schools Volume 8, PT. 1903


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...where any person could find instruction in any study." In like spirit the Morrill Act was framed, bringing together all rays of various genius, the engineer, and the farmer, the student of literature and the student of exact science, all to do their work in the spirit of equality before the law, and under mutual association each gains. The literary student gains in seriousness and power, the engineer in refinement and appreciation. Like in character is the argument for co-education, a condition encouraged by this same Morrill Act. The men become more refined, the women more earnest, the men more manly, the women more womanly, through influences which abolish rowdyism and giggling. In the same line we must count the influence of Mark Tappan, perhaps the first to conceive of a state university, existing solely for the good of the state, to do the work the state most needs. Agassiz also showed that advanced work is better than elementary, for its better disciplinary quality. Agassiz insisted that Harvard in his day was only "a respectable high school, where they taught the dregs of education,"--thorough training in some one line he declared was the backbone of education. It was the base line by which the real student was enabled to measure scholarship in others. In most of our colleges the attempt to widen the course of study by introducing desirable things, preceded the discovery that no general courses of study were desirable. We have found that all prescribed work is bad work unless it is prescribed by the nature of the subject. The student in electrical engineering takes to mathematics, because he knows that his future success depends on his mastery of it. In the same fashion, the student in medicine is willing to accept chemistry. But a yea...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231170021
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 58
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231170026
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 122 gr


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